We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.